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Tesumph said:
Story time. When I was 16/17 or so I visited a local “rescue” for a day to decide if I wanted to volunteer there long term, and ended up lasting an hour, tops. The whole thing was just so off. The woman complained to me nonstop about her neighbors and how they had it out for her and apparently wanted to steal her horses; the rooms at the back reeked of urine and were stuffed with little dogs and had about 10 dogs running loose, all looked ungroomed and many had visible fleas crawling on them; the backyard of her building was about 50 small kennel runs lined up like a prison camp with dogs packed in on mud and howling nonstop.
It was truly bizzare and I didn’t know whether to feel pity (she talked nonstop about how she recieved no financial help from anyone and the dogs relied on her personal income and labor) or anger. Needless to say I got the hell out of Dodge and never went back.

Months later the Houston SPCA busted her for animal hoarding and took all her animals. It was surreal seeing her mugshot in the news and a huge eye opener for me that just because someone calls themselves a rescue doesn’t mean they’re trustworthy. It came out that her neighbors had called animal control on her multiple times, but every time she would clean up her act and hide everything and it would blow over. Oh, and the “horse stealing” was her neighbors trying to sneak food and water to her horses that were skin and bones (I never saw them).

The craziest part is, I actually almost gave that psycho my dog, Clementine. This was back when we first found her and my parents were adamant we weren’t keeping her. That “rescue” was the only one accepting dogs over 30 pounds; if I hadn’t scoped out the potential volunteer work, who knows where my baby Clem would be.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/dozens-of-animals-seized-from-sanctuary
This was the initial seizure. There were a lot more than 26 dogs in that place, I always wondered what she did with them.
I can’t find the updated article but if I remember correctly, she spent half a year in jail and reopened after that, and then was busted again and closed down for good.
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Wow what a crazy story. Is that you they interviewed?
 
KDOGG331 said:
Lol well I also think animals have kind of like a sixth sense or something about this type of thing. They seem to always know
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Agreed. We've had some animals that seem to not care & others who really seem to. We had one dog that went into a deep depression after we lost the other. I've never seen anything like it & it was heart breaking. When we got another dog we brought her with us & let her pick out which one she wanted. Luckily the breeders were really understanding about letting us do that.

(Yes, I did say breeder. I know that might be a controversial word right now, but let me tell you I've had pure bred dogs, Heinz 57's & rescues. Not one was better or worse than the other. Each animal I bring home is done in a different way & for different reasons. Not all breeders are bad & not all rescues are bad. Not trying to ruffle any feathers here, I'm just saying I like to weigh out each situation as it arises.)
 
room onthebroom said:
I'd be happy to help! :drool
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Thank you! Lol

room onthebroom said:
Agreed. We've had some animals that seem to not care & others who really seem to. We had one dog that went into a deep depression after we lost the other. I've never seen anything like it & it was heart breaking. When we got another dog we brought her with us & let her pick out which one she wanted. Luckily the breeders were really understanding about letting us do that.

(Yes, I did say breeder. I know that might be a controversial word right now, but let me tell you I've had pure bred dogs, Heinz 57's & rescues. Not one was better or worse than the other. Each animal I bring home is done in a different way & for different reasons. Not all breeders are bad & not all rescues are bad. Not trying to ruffle any feathers here, I'm just saying I like to weigh out each situation as it arises.)
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Awww that's so sad.

And nah, don't worry, breeders not a controversial word, at least not to me, and my next dog will be a purebred, I've decided that much.
 
Tesumph said:
:gigYou’re funny kdog. Nope, that’s not me.
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Lol the article interviewed, or rather quoted I guess, a former volunteer and I think it said her name was Erin and for some reason I thought that was your name which is why i thought it was you lol but i guess if you were underage at the time they wouldn't list your full name lol
 
Great, we can have GMO chickens

CVM Public Webinar: Genome Editing in Animals
In order to provide for a more comprehensive overview and opportunity for discussion, the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine is postponing its Public Webinar about Genome Editing in Animals, originally scheduled for December 3, 2018, to a later date. We hope to announce a new date soon in order to accommodate significant public interest in this arena.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), with participation from the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), is holding a public webinar about genome editing in animals.

The live-cast webinar will focus primarily on the current scientific evidence, promising uses of this technology in animals, and the potential risks. The webinar will also provide information to all interested stakeholders about CVM’s flexible, risk-based approach to the regulation of intentional genomic alterations in animals and address common misconceptions associated with the regulation of these products. This webinar will not cover genome editing in plants for human and/or animal food.

from https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinar...7f4975&elqaid=6102&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4952
 

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